We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.